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Editorofthewiki is currently: talking in the third person

Please update this if I have my grammar right!

Today is Monday, June 17, 2024, 06:01 (UTC/GMT).
There are 6,836,641 articles on the English Wikipedia.
Today is

My bot, EditorBot, was for approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EditorBot, but it failed. The Bot account is reserved, however, and whether or not it will ever be used remains a mystery.

Welcome to my user page. You really should be editing right now. So why are you wasting your time reading this sentence? I could just go on an on about myself, but why should I? Since you are still here right now, I will welcome you under this comfy blanket.

Apparently only 56 or soWikipedians have created more articles than me.

About Me[edit]

I started editing under this account shortly after the New Year, 2008, after editing under an IP for a while. My username is derived from that of User:Destroyerofthewiki, a sockpuppet of User:DavidYork71. Instead of destroying the wiki, I want to edit it, and I would have chosen a better username, but all the good ones are taken. I think that I did quite well with what's left, don't you think?

I have been active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Earthquakes. I don't really have much of a liking of these destructive ruptures, in case you're wondering. They are pretty fun to write about however. My time there has not been wasted: I basically wrote FA 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake (with some copyediting help and some small additions, mostly from User:Ceranthor) and GA 1992 Nicaragua earthquake (also written from scratch--this was speedied while a stub!).

I have also been active writing basketball articles, among other subjects.

I will tell you nothing about my personal life, since I don't know who you are, except I am a male human from the Planet Earth who was born sometime in the 20th century.

I am a bit of a linguist, as demonstrated by my languageboxes below:

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
es-2Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
simple
3
This user can help out at an advanced level of Simple English.


States and countries visited[edit]

U.S. States visited
Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina Florida West Virginia New York Tennessee Connecticut Massachusetts Colorado New Hampshire Maine Rhode Island
Countries visited
United States Dominican Republic Iceland Germany Costa Rica

Toolbox[edit]

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On other Wikis[edit]

I have accounts on the following sister projects:

Commons
Wikinews
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikibooks
Wikisource
Wikispecies
Wikiversity
Meta-Wiki

Stuff to do[edit]

About Wikipedia[edit]

Basics
Help
Policies, Guides, and Resources

The Community
Things to do
Miscellaneous

Tasks that you can do[edit]

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.


Tower of Wikipedia[edit]

WP:AIV
WP:WARN
WP:ANI
WP:SPI
WP:RCP
WP:RPP
WP:RFA
WP:AFD
WP:XFD
WP:DRV
CAT:SPEEDY
WP:CSD
WP:RM
WP:FA
WP:RFC
WP:RAA
WP:ER
WP:TM
WP:LOP
WP:PNT
WP:BACK
CAT:HELP
WP:VP
WP:HAHA
WP:BARN
WP:RD

Recent Changes[edit]

List of abbreviations (help):
D
Edit made at Wikidata
r
Edit flagged by ORES
N
New page
m
Minor edit
b
Bot edit
(±123)
Page byte size change

17 June 2024


Tip of the Day[edit]

Beware of instruction creep

Also called instructionitis, instruction creep is the tendency of instructions to grow and grow, until they become so long and complex that nobody wants to read them. When editing help pages, or instructions for Wikipedia's departments, please make them clear and concise, reducing them whenever possible.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

Today's featured article[edit]

Icelandic horse performing the tölt
Icelandic horse performing the tölt

The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Developed from ponies brought to Iceland by Norse settlers in the 9th and 10th centuries, the breed is mentioned in Icelandic literature and historical records. They are long-lived, hardy, and have few diseases in their country. In addition to the gaits typical of other horse breeds, many Icelandic horses can also do the tölt (pictured) and the flying pace. The only breed of horse in Iceland, sizable populations exist in Europe and North America. They are used for sheepherding work in Iceland, leisure, showing, and racing. Selective breeding and natural selection with the Icelandic climate developed them into their current form. In the 1780s, much of the breed was killed after a volcanic eruption at Laki. The first breed society for the Icelandic horse was created in Iceland in 1904; the breed is now represented by organizations in 19 nations, under the auspices of the International Federation of Icelandic Horse Associations. (Full article...)